Singapore Police And Medical Departments Face Staff Problems
At a period when both Singapore and the Malayan Union are malting every endeavour to restore the pre-war efficiency of both the police and the medical services to combat Increased crime and disease which are the after- math of the occupation, reports indicate considerable dis- content among the higher Asiatic officers of both services, reports Router.
feeling of inferiority of a person on A purely basle anlury an compared with one on a higher salary.”
Ten loent police inspectors, European doctors. According to the have realgned in the last two Association, this would perpetuate existing discrimination and "the months and, according to the "Malaya Tribuno" the chief cause of the resignation is lack of confidense, in official promises regarding improvements in the conditions of service of Asiatic officera.
Staff
ahortages In Singapore's General Hospital are now so serious that four
wards have had to ba abandoned until more nurses, dres- sers and doctors According to Dr Vickers the which now takes about 500
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1946.
Deterioration In Quality Of Argentine Meat
London, Dec. I.
The "Sunday Express" said to
day that Food Committees of meat
distributors and retall butchers aro
concerned about the quality of some of the Argentine meat now coming into the country.
The article quoted distributors to the effect that "there has been 1 noticeable deterioration" slace the signing of
the Anglo-Argentine ogreement In September.
The buying committee in Croydon, the article alleged, had refused the meat during the last few weeks be cause it was "old muck." The com- mittee sald it was not bad meat' but simply meat that was too old to do the anything with, according to
RUSSIANS
- MEDDLING
to
IN PERSIA
The
Toleran, Dec. 1. newspaper "Atesh" to day protested that the Soviet Union was interfering with Per- sin's internal affairs.
The
Pernin'a
Compromise Plan To Replace
UNRRA
of
Lake Success, Nav. 30. The United States continued refusal to give financial Government's support to any continuation UNRRA, such as Florello LaGuardin's proposed $400,000,000 fund to be administered by a UN board, brought
UN Secretariat of purely support to-day by a Brazilian com-. promise plan for co-ordination by the relief afforts.
national
The Brazilian compromise has not
legal internal rights were not pro-
paper said that if tected by the United Nations the country was certain to be annihilat ed. It suggested that representatives of all nations should be invited to yet won the support of Russia which Investigate Soviet Interference. in is insistent upon prolongation of Persia.
UNRRA with internationalised con- Atesh said: "The Sovlet Govern- trol of world relief-even offering to ment is applying pressure on Perala | contribute its "small share.” most severely and interfering with every aspect our lives and we can legally demand assistance from freedom-loving nations, against this
force." Bway of The article said the paper had The Soviet Ambassador, wen! on been faformed by Mr E. J. Baldwin, the paper, recently protested strongly Central Government's complaints already have been made The Ambassador said Soviet troops thin Ment Traders Association, that plans to send troops to Azerbaijan. to the Minister of Food.
paper.
are ng
chairman of the London Re-ngainst the
new
could take 300 more if fully staffed.
With the promise of the medical charter, as inducement, Dr Vickers, will seek to recruit
One mentor Asiatic officer close to retirement, are was promoted to the rank of Anirbant Superintendent of Pulice a post formerly reserved for Europeans but his appointment was inevitably compared with that of an Aslate doctor who was nurses through Singapore's girls cently
to promoted
the highest medical trade after he had indicated his Intention to resign.
Speaking at the annual dinner of
schools.
the Alumni Asociation of the KingDe
VII College of Medicine. Dr
Edward VII
W. J. Vickers, Director of Medical Services
"Details of what
new Medical
may well term a Charter, are being worked out nt this moment. · Unfortunately this operation takes time and means still morn patience on the part of my Government colleagues. They have shown an exemplary patience ulready."
Dr Vickers also promised im- proved conditions for whom there is a serious shortage and said that the reorganisation of Singapore's medical services would give the Colony a hospital and teaching organization equal to that in Great Brita
moro
Gaulle May
Mr Baldwin said, according to the Express, that "some of the Argentine packs of old ewe mutton are un- suitable for the ration. The meat is
not bad but it is too aged and tough and should be used for manufac- turing purposes,"
Be Called Back complained "it is impossible to eat
The
Paris, Nov. 30,
that ppssibility
General Charles de Gaulle might be called back from political exile to head the "government national unity" is French political circles as parties be- gan the struggle to form a new government,
The Express raid one butcher
some of it. Customers blame us but we have to serve it when it is sent as part of our allocution."
The article said after s "poker game" in Buenos Aires lasting more than two months a British Mission agreed in September to buy 80 per cons of Argentina's exportable sur plus of meat and any other meat she United Press.
of
were evacuated from Persin
Mr C. Tyler Wood, American mem- ber of UNRRA Central Committee, aald last night in a speech in Ply mouth, Massachusetts, that the
US Government feels that only very tance. Others, in the opinion of the tow countries now need free assis US Bank-which Russia never joined credits
Government, should obtain through the International
only
or the US Export-import Bank, or after the Central Government give
by a direct loan from the United ussurances that the Azerbaijan pro-
States or other governments. blem would be solved peacefully.
how- The Russian Government, The newspaper pointed out that just as Persia was not preventing ever, maintained that relief should In the be international to avoid the danger movements Soviet troop Caucasus the Soviet Union
to shuuld of political strings being attached not interfere with the movements of relief loans, and wants the United Persian troops within Perzin.
Staten to be used as a clearing house. Atesh also reported two former
Unless Russia can change the State will UNRRA offeera Soviet
wearing civilian Department's mind, clothes and trying to escape in a discontinue is European relief in the Jeep were arrested by Central next month.-United Press. Government gendarmes at Zenjan.
Reports trom Mehabad sald Governor General Mohammad Self Ghazi had gone te Moscow for "latest Instructions and has sent to Kurdis stan 2,000 Soviet rifles each holding
unds in the magazine. Another
Deadlock Develops
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Since the October 13th constitu- tional referendum Gen de Gaulle dcus Dr Siraat at home in Columbey les Replying to Dr Vickers,
some 100 miles east of Han Hoe Lim, CBE, member of the Englises, Singapore Advisory Council, said here and kept strictly out of the recent rendgaatious from Singapore political ring. He is playing no ac- hospital stads had been so numerous tive party in the present inter-party tug-of-wars, and has made clear that to cause concern. 0.5 patients had to be turned away he has no intention of doing so,
na
through lack of atoff.
mine
many
Persons in touch with him, how- ever, indicated that the General be- Co-operation Undermined
lleves he will be rummoned back "Conditions are such as to under-some day to try to yank French that spirit of co-operation politics out of the present chaotic which must necessarily be para situation and many delegates be mount in the medical service. Co- iloved that there is a possibility that operation in the Medical Department he might be called to do so as carly
only be grounded on equal terms as within three months. that is
equal remuneration equal
for work: It is these capacity little discriminations that are causing dissatisfaction and I hope that the promises made by Dr Vickers will be carried out" Sir Han Hoe Lim
can
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to
The Association favours the unl- Scallon of medical services through- out Singapore and Malnya without distinction of race. According reports from Penang, the northern branch of the Association recently rejected the Malayan Union Govern- ment's proposals for a new medical
The Communists, who form the largest single party in the Assembly, are trying to talk the Socialists into riding along in the popular front of the Left Wing Government. The Socialista,
are cautious so far, United Press,
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President Manuel Roxas instructed the Secretary of Interior, Jose C. Zulueta, to rush MP troops to Salage, Cavite Province, where a pitched battle is in progress between police, recalcitrant elements and the the Manila Post reported to-day.
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A Colonel Mazaheri in of troops at Zenjan sent a telegram to the Shah requesting permission "to breth by Tabriz and liberate our from the hands of Cauca- alan immigrants within 10 hours." The telegram said that with the material at present at Zenjan the task could be easily accomplished United Press.
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whose
and
has
The sub-committee at a meetings has thus far been unable to
be,ween compromise find a Danish plan incorporating Florello
proposals H. LaGuardia's $400,000,000 emergency food and the US stand against interna- tional machinery, to which Britain belatedly adhered.-United Press.
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29th November, 1946.
Tribute To Fallen
Manila, Dec. 1. President Manuel RoxOD -paid
"biave the United Nations Organisation will
Washington, Nov. '10. tribute yesterday to the
be that much easier. patriots who died in the defence of
Complete scrapping of the Govern- our country against the ruthless A good start has been made by
men's sugar rationing programme enemy" before the tombs of Fillplao Mr Peter de Mendelssohn,
was viewed as a possibility by top and American unknown soldiers at The Nuremberg Documents"
officials as a result of a Federal Court published (Allen Capas, Tarlac, National Cemetery on just been
suit attacking the Office of Price Ad- Unwin.
12s. the occasion of National Heroes Day.
Bd.).
regulations for sugar beministration never
10 His boole, which is also He pledged that "we will hermit any invader again to trample published in Germany, contains very distribution.
One official told a newaman that WAGES CONTROL LIFTED our sacred soil, We will defend as full extracts from the 5,000 captured
with those im- German documents submitted by the suit filed by the Maple Leaf In- have done you perishable ideals even unto death." the British and American prosecu- corporated of Brooklyn, New York,
Gen George F.
during the first four strikes at the very basis of the sugar Com-ting teams manding General of the AFWesPac, weeks of the Nuremberg trial.
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With effect from Monday, Decem rationing regulations. Under attack! Me Mackenzie
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ber 2nd, Telephone number for is OPA's system for arriving at Minister, announced to-day that all the verbatim record of the tele-industrial and institutional users.
The official who declined the use of salaries, with one exception, will be is G8001.
removed at midnight to-night he phone conversation which Goering one held from Berlin with Ribbentrop in his name, said that "if this system eauso "with the gradual increase of Hong Kong, 30th November, 1946,
London after the march into Aus- goes out, it is possible that the en- production the wartime need for the tria, in order that the British should tire sugar rationing programme would limitation of the expansion of pur-
to all practical purposes."-chasing power has decreased and the too rigid for the period listen in and get the right impres-go
wartime anti-inflation methods are transition."United Press. alon of Germany's lanocent Inten- Associated Press. tions.
ever
Paris, Dec. 1.
In con-
and Corregidor. No, 18-nation executive ference of the League of Red-Cross- greater measure of faith has Societies ended their two-day meet- been shown by the people of
nation in another."-United Press. a com- Ing to-day by appointing mittee for "action" to outlaw the atomic bomb.
The committee will recommend The Germans may not know it but the Chinese served the first diah of changes in the Geneva and Hague Conventions affecting the atomic their favourite food, suya
bomb and protection of civilians and PICES
The National Kraut Packers' As- children. Proposals will be present- Red Cross 1940 inter- sociation of America has discovered ed to the
that the Chinese invented sauer national conference in Stockholm.
Weather To Aid
Business
But this is only a small beginning. It is essential that ell the captured material should be made available for full publicity,
That is why I very much hope it Washington, Déc. 1. Is true that the Americans intend kraut. In fact, sauerkraut, by a dif- "Our job is to make the League The Weather Bureau announced to, press for the publication of Ger- ferent name, was so popular as a an effective force for humanity and 200g-giving food
more than peace," said Basil O'Conner, Chair-recently it has organised a new divi-man Foreign Office archives, despite years ago that it was cry to man f the American Red Cross and ion-Industrial climatology-to guide the objections raised by other Allies.
businessmen. in "playing the odds including, so I am told, ourselves. the labourers who built the Greek President of the League.
on the weather." Wall of China.
We will not do that by passing The Chinese sill use the original resolutions only, but by
taking recipe, which called for fermenting cabbage In wine.
Later the Egypt. nction." Lans started eating anuerkraut, the The committee will consist of Association and. They liked it so Red Cross and Red Crescent much they built altars to ft. ; representatives Pom an välimäles
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The probability of
particular kind of weather can be stated with considerable
"even in very
ong range ecision Fald Dr. W.{
3. Jacobs, Bureau climatologist.
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New York, Dec. 1. Brig-Gen Carlos P. Romula, chief Philippines delegate to the United Nations won British support to-day on the "legally" of a new scheme to give non-selfgoverning people "a
The new division, he said, will to business special techniques apply for weather forecasting which were developed during the war.
These not only helped to solve miftary but vehicle of expression" but
in such activities as building encountered procedural
Alaskan from France. Maintaining the airfields, Highway, choosing sites for ordnance
storage depots and
Japanese rice crop.
objections
The Philippines originally
had
estimating these we of the peoples of non-
to the assembly that a world
Many businessmen can flad hun selfgoverning countries be called by weather the economic and social council but dreds of similar uses for
* Dr Jacobs predicted. Britain raised an objection that such analysis," "Virtually every type of business a move would take the United Na con profit to some extent by modity Lions "outside the scope of its func ing its activities to conform with Lions."
weather futuro Associated Press,,
probabilities)
1. Mckinnon Whod,
repre-
Britain, naid he believed the itleo could agree there were no legal objections to this new plan and that
11 could be referred lothe
UNRRA WAGES REVISION trusteeship. commilies for discussion
Shanghai, Nov. 30. Abolition of differential in wages between Chinese and non-Chinese employees of UNRRA was announced to-day by Major-General Glen E. Edgerton, Director of UNRRA/China office.
1.
He said that, effective on- January now wage scale will be instituted providing for equal pay for equal work and equal performance.
Emclenty, will be the only factor with nationality playing no part sold that a general 10 per cent in- crease for all UNRRA's Chinese cin ployees, retroactive on October 1, would be the first step towards climination of wage differentla). Associated Press.
by unanimous agreement of the legal committee,
Mr Wood said the British delega tion "fully recognises the hoblo motives of the Philippines idea for conference or conferences and was grateful to Romulo for revising the plan to meet the Bruish objections. -Associated Press,
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Sands, Mexico, proving ground in a series of testa extended May 29, The Army Air Force nnounced to-day.
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